The volcanic eruption that ravaged Pompeii in year 79 is one of the most famous in history. It is known how its victims died, but how did they live? A new insight into the lives of the people who lived in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius before its cataclysmic eruption.

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Climb aboard the illustrious Bernina Express for a festive ride through spectacular Alpine landscape...

Archaeologist Raksha Dave and historian Dan Snow return to Pompeii to gain special access to a varie...

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The devious general Cethegus plays the Byzantine and Gothic forces against each other for his own ga...

Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. S...

Dr. Mark Fairchild, world-renowned archaeologist, traces the hidden years of Saint Paul's life in th...

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Rome chafes under the rule of the Emperor Domitian and his Egyptian mistress, Artamne. A mysterious ...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

The assassination of the would-be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic conseq...

Amanda Knox served four years in an Italian prison for the murder of her British flatmate Meredith K...

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A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imp...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

Forensic experts scan Pompeii’s victims to investigate why they didn’t escape the eruption.